Sleeping Beauty

noun

1. a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
2. (italics) the fairy tale itself.
3. (italics) a ballet (1889) by Tchaikovsky.

“Sleeping Beauty”

1. A fairy tale from the collection of Charles Perrault, about a beautiful princess cast into a deep sleep through a jealous fairy's curse. Sleeping Beauty is awakened at last by the kiss of a prince.

Example Sentences

The sleeping beauties of the museum show, however, aren’t at all Disney or “Wicked” or humans of any kind.

From Seattle Times

If stylists, celebrities and socialites heed the message to let sleeping beauties lie, then important, historic clothing has a better chance of preservation for future generations.

From Los Angeles Times

The “sleeping beauties” referred to in the title of the show are actually treasured garments in the museum’s collection that are so fragile, they need to be housed in special glass “coffins,” curators said.

From Seattle Times

“It was time for Disney to wake up its sleeping beauty, that is, its library of classic animation, and what a beauty it was.”

From Los Angeles Times

It is also the case that the importance of some works, which Yin describes as ‘sleeping beauties,’ are only realized years or decades later.

From Scientific American